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In reply to the discussion: Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 14,000 [View all]Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)but the celebration of this milestone of a number that does not reflect the real economy, and even if it did, does not represent a recovery, or catching up, is simply more irrational exuberance that serves mainly to make people feel better about being screwed over.
And the political spin is just that, spin. We all despise the republicans, but a major factor, perhaps the single largest factor in the de facto acceptance of what is literally the Greatest Robbery in the History of the World is due to the President and the Party's complicity in it. I understand that we don't want to provide ammunition to the crazies, but we should also never allow our opposition to that insanity to overwhelm or distract us from remembering just who the guilty are, all or them, not just the guys in the other colored jerseys.